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This photo, provided by the Korea Institute of Astronomy and Space Science, shows K-DRIFT, its newly developed telescope.
DAEJEON, September 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Institute of Astronomy and Space Sciences (KASI) has developed an astronomical telescope that can observe ultra-low surface-light (LSB) celestial objects thousands of times darker than the night sky, using technology local.
The research team recently installed a test model of the KASI-Deep Rolling Imaging (K-DRIFT) Fast Optical Telescope at the Mount Bohyun Astronomical Observatory and successfully observed the ultra-LSB zone in the vicinity of the galaxy. NGC 5907, which is about a thousand times darker than the night sky.
The newly developed telescope is a small optical telescope with a caliber of 30 centimeters, but managed to capture a high-quality observatory image of the LSB area around a gigantic galaxy.
This was the first case in which local researchers developed the whole process of processing, assembly and alignment and succeeded in real observation.
Off-axis free-form surface mirrors such as the K-DRIFT can capture high-quality images in a wider field of view, even with a small telescope, thus being able to complement heavier galactic telescopes.
After completing the set-up of the test model’s observation system, the research team plans to initiate exploratory observation of LSB areas around giant galaxies in near space later this year.
JS Shin ([email protected])
